Monday, July 7, 2008

Froggie went a courting...

A few years ago I carved this little woodblock from parts of wood around other images. I only needed a little spot approximately 2.5 x 3.25 inches for the key and pond blocks, and even smaller for the other colors. Last weekend I printed up a fresh batch of Froggies and made them into gift cards by trimming them and mounting them to various scraps of papers and finally onto cardstock and finishing them off with a few odd beads and embroidery floss. Of course, they were not standard envelope size, so the envelopes are made from scraps of various mulberry papers hiding out in drawers. Nothing, but nothing goes to waste around here and very little gets tossed out. In that respect I suppose this could be considered house cleaning. Yes! I spent the weekend cleaning house! I wonder if anyone will notice.... Maybe one of these days I will put some of these on my poor little neglected Etsy site.... someday....

4 comments:

Ellen Shipley said...

This is quite lovely. 8-] I like the embellishments as well.

Annie B said...

What a great image. I love the sky. Nice way to clean the studio!

Diane Cutter said...

How delightful, Sharri... I agree about the sky; the design gives a sense of flight and movement.

Mike Lyon said...

Awww, Sharri -- you are great! Love you, love your work -- keep scrounging!